The Palestinian ambassador to Greece

🚨This will be the last post we share here. We believe there is no point in telling our human stories anymore; everyone has grown accustomed to seeing us killed. It's no longer worth the risk to send our voice out to a world that is content with mere solidarity. Even many of our

We are thrilled to announce our 2024 Conservation Writing Shortlist for The Wainwright Prize. ✏️🌱 Congratulations to Helen Czerski, John Vaillant, Chantal Lyons, Tori Tsui (she/they), Sophie Yeo and Oli Franklin-Wallis. #WainwrightPrize #ConservationWriting #WainwrightPrize24

Αύξηση θερμοκρασιών, περισσότεροι ρύποι, λιγότερα νερά θα είναι μερικές από τις επιπτώσεις των πυρκαγιών. Η τελευταία ανέβασε το ποσοστό των καμένων δασικών εκτάσεων της Αττικής στο 37% την τελευταία οκταετία, ενώ αφήνει και ψυχικό αποτύπωμα σε όσους εί... kathimerini.gr/society/563174…

What fascinates me about the hummingbird hawk-moth isn't just the eighty wingbeats per second or that it can side-slip in flight but that it traplines. It holds a memory of scent, returning to the same nectar sources at the same time each day. It follows a map made of flowers.

I'm giving a couple of talks next week on Wild Air: 23rd Aug Waterstones_Perth: waterstones.com/events/wild-ai… & 24th Aug Little Sparta Trust: littlesparta.org.uk/book-talk-jame… Really looking forward to both events.

On 16 August I sadly lost my silver-coloured wedding ring in the Sorgue at Rapide de l’epinge. I know that it would be a miracle but, if anyone finds it in the river, then I would be so grateful if you could let me know. Thank you.

Staggering piece of reportage, data viz & photography from a team at Bloomberg on the ruin that is Gaza. 42 million tonnes of rubble. As an historian specializing in *post-WW2 reconstruction* puts it: “Gaza is something never seen before in the history of urbanism.”

It’s arrived! It’s great to be able to hold a copy of ‘The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies’ I’ve edited with Neal Alexander. An enormous thank you to the 41 contributors & the editorial team Routledge Literature for making it happen.

A map of the moving world

Delighted to be joining this incredible list of speakers at this year's Corfu Literary Festival 💙! I'll be talking about Prespa and my upcoming book 'Lifelines' on Sept 17th together with David Evan Giles and Danai Dragonea. Tickets for all events can be found here: eventbrite.co.uk/cc/corfu-liter…

30 UK-based doctors return from Gaza to report on the horrific situation and to ask the UK government to stop supplying weapons to Israel. These are neutral observers - in a place where war correspondents have no access. They witnessed the violence, illness, injury being

a privilege to spend the day with Julian Hoffman and listening him describing aspects of Prespa on species, ecosystems, and the Greek civil war. A perfect day at Mt Devas

Exacerbating one crisis while pretending to solve another -- the BLM is giving away many millions of acres of the last best public lands to utility companies so they can bulldoze them for 'green energy' profits -- this agency is such a 'wise steward' of our public lands.🤮

A Levant sparrowhawk, kestrel and short-toed eagle suddenly all above the garden right now. Feels a bit like waiting for busses this morning.

“If you destroy the landscape, one as rich as ours, you destroy the very reason people come here in the first place.” ~ Nikos Zorzos, mayor of Santorini Excellent piece Helena Smith on the critical problems of Greece's investment in tourism dependence. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Kalo Mina 💙 September means Corfu Literary Festival 💙 Come and swim, eat, drink some wine, explore during the day & enjoy our evening events with a spectacular line up of speakers in beautiful UNESCO EU Corfu Town CorfuLiteraryFestival.com

A fine goat in the surviving part of a mosaic floor (c 200 AD) from the dining-room of a luxury house in Ancient Corinth. The colour-scheme is muted orange/brown/grey-blue, offset by the bright blue of the foliage, the effect enhanced by the use of glass tesserae. #MosaicMonday

Μηλίνα, Ποτιστικά, Χορευτό, Ζαγορά ένα χρόνο μετά την καταιγίδα Ντάνιελ. Οι αμμουδιές καθαρίστηκαν, αλλά τα αντιπλημμυρικά έργα δεν έχουν ολοκληρωθεί. #Πήλιο kathimerini.gr/society/563197…

The climate markers in Greece this summer seem stronger than ever. Even here in the north, a thousand metres above sea level, oak forests began browning in early August from heat stress. And now a sunken village is resurfacing because of drought. theguardian.com/world/article/…